If your parents parented differently than one another, how did that affect you?

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1. Dad wasn’t as loving & understanding as my mom so I usually went to her for emotional support. Anything that had to do with my emotional wellbeing, my mother handled it.

   Dad showed love through material things. I appreciated it as a kid, but I wasn’t looking for a sugar daddy lmao. If mom didn’t agree with me, I sure as hell knew my father would do it for me. If it wasn’t for him, I would’ve never gotten my first tattoo as I needed permission(still was considered a minor).

   I turned out okay, I guess. I do not have the healthiest attachments to people though. Had a hard time expressing feelings since teenage years. The way my mom handles conflict is weird? She’s the type to walk away from conflict and I frequently dated the same type of women.

2. My mom woke up for work super early and was asleep very early so we were left to our own devices quite a bit. My dad left when I was 10 and lived an hour away. So I guess their parenting styles were similar.

3. From what I was told, I was a very chill happy baby. Rarely cried and often laughed.
   Was easy to take places and wasn’t fussy.

   My parents took that as a sign to have another. This is easy right?

   Then she was born.

   Cried and fussed until she got what she wanted. They didn’t know what to do so they gave her everything and focused the grease on the squeaky wheel.

   This of course continued into teenager years and adulthood.

   I moved out when I was 17 because I couldn’t stand her and how she manipulated them. Inevitably lost respect for my parents because of it.

   My parents aren’t bad people but they don’t know what to do with her so they appease.

   I told them almost a decade ago that I never want to see her again. Needless to say they didn’t understand because she is their golden child who takes and takes from them.